[MPlayer-dev-eng] Replace the debian/ packaging directory

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:42:36 (EDT), Reinhard Tartler wrote:

> Hey there,
>
> I'd like to propose to replace the existing debian/ packaging with my
> packaging I'm doing for Ubuntu.
>
> If accepted, I intend to additionally:
>
>  - compile against internal ffmpeg
>  - have debian/changelog generated in order to include the svn revision
>    in the package revision properly
>  - provide scripts to create both source packages and binary packages
>
> The idea is to setup a cron job or something that uses the latter script
> to unattendedly upload daily builds to an ubuntu PPA, which will then
> build ubuntu packages for i386 and amd64 automatically for us.
>
> Unlike my packages for debian, this packaging will create mencoder and
> mplayer-gui packages, and link against lame, x264 and xvid. This is the
> only difference to debian. Debian users can use this packages of course
> as well, they just need to ensure that these packages are available in
> their build environment.

Diego asked me to elaborate on the differences to the current packaging:

 - seperate mplayer, mencoder and mplayer-gui package (current: single
   package)
 - no debconf questions during installation
 - parallel builds
 - debian/changelog gets generated, so upgrades via an archive is
   possible
 - doc-base integration
 - 'distro' debian/copyright file

I think these are the most important items.

-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4